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4476. Missing!

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... deal of money is lost. How many of you at that moment are worried about the lost money and car? Of course you’re not. All you care about is that your child lives. You wrap your arms around that child as though you’ll never let him or her go. Jesus primes our pump ... all animals for man……therefore by how much the more precious is the creation of man, so much the greater is God’s care for him…….Look at the birds of the air….are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matthew 6:26). “Fear not, ...

4477. You Don't Have to Yell

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (NRSV) Jesus never hid his agenda. He couldn’t have cared less what the religious establishment said, or what would make him popular with the crowds. He cared about bringing God’s love to everyone. And he didn’t wait for anyone to come to him. No, Jesus went outside his stomping grounds, into the “bad neighborhoods” to find the people who needed to see ...

4478. Response Ability

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... between two or more parties. God’s covenant assures us that God will always be our God, will protect us, and love us, and care for us always. As part of that covenant, God sent Himself in the human form of Jesus to absolve us, redeem us, and save ... , we look at the work we are to do in the world, even the huge energy that it takes to love the people who harm us and to care for the people who disagree with us, and it seems like TOO MUCH for us to handle. And yet this is part of what Jesus asks us to ...

4479. Where Are the Nine?

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... United States. It was a gift. Most of us were born in homes where we have love and support. We could have been born in a home where no one cared for us, where we would have had to somehow survive on our own. Allen Emery, the author of the delightful little book titled, A Turtle on the Fencepost, argued ... who will?’; tends to enjoy ceremony and ritual; typical of great law and order people; careful, cautious, accurate; industrious; and always prepared.” The third type of prayer is called the Augustinian ...

4480. Stay the Course

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... he recognized Judas’ deceit before he ever betrayed him. Jesus is adept at recognizing liars because he sees into our hearts. We can trust Jesus to guide us when we are confronted by lies. In our scripture for today, when Jesus tells his disciples to be careful not to be led astray, he is warning them about liars, skilled liars, hard-to-identify liars, liars masked as “good people,” liars who come in the very name of Jesus! These are people who say they know something you don’t, who challenge your ...

4481. Stop in the Name of Love

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... , Romania, in 1909. Wurmbrand was a wealthy businessman and a playboy. He spent his time when he wasn’t working going to local bars and cabaret shows. He says of his lifestyle back then, “I did not care what happened as long as my appetite for fresh sensation was fed.” He also didn’t care how many women he lied to or cheated on, including his wife. But then Wurmbrand contracted tuberculosis and was confined in the hospital for a long recuperation. During this lonely and scary time, he began to read ...

4482. A Tattoo for the Heart

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... that they were God’s elect. Now notice, Jesus never said these were bad people. He did not say they were going to hell. All he said was that they already had their reward. You may read into that what you will. Listen closely to Christ’s words: “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So, when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and ...

4483. Do You Know the Gift of God?

John 4:5-42

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to hold a ‘deep’ conversation with someone they don’t know well, and routinely underestimate how much other people care about us and what’s on our minds.” (1) Isn’t that interesting? We overestimate the “awkwardness factor” of ... starting up a conversation with strangers, and we underestimate how much other people care about us and what’s on our minds. Those conclusions give me a lot of encouragement about the goodness of people ...

4484. Why the Cross?

Hebrews 2:17-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... threatened, and he sent the magi to find him so that he could kill him. If God was adamant about a blood sacrifice, why not take care of it in the beginning? Now, let’s look at the life of Jesus. As Christians, we believe in the incarnation of God. In other words, ... the blood of Jesus, then the ministry of Jesus Christ has no meaning. God put skin on and walked with sinners, cared about them, and lovingly invited them to repent. More than that, if you read the gospels, you see Jesus forgiving people left ...

4485. What Power Fears Most

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the importance of his life in light of the messianic prophecies. Then they told them something else. They would need to be very, very careful. The child’s life was in danger. In fact, his life would always be endangered from the time of his birth until the ... until the child would come of age and set out on God’s active mission. First in Egypt, then in Nazareth, they would live carefully under the radar with the child until he grew into the man he was to become. Once Jesus set out on God’s mission ...

4486. The Trust of Simon Cephas

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... him to bestow upon him this entrustment or endowment in his “building project”? He saw faith, rock solid faith without hesitance, the same way he saw truth in Nathaniel, the same way he saw industry and obedience in James and John. Jesus’ chose his disciples carefully, because he knew they would each have a special role to play in the kingdom initiative he was planning. The meaning of Kepha or Cephas is stone (a hunk of stone to be hewn into a rock or brick used for building). It may need forming ...

4487. With Gratitude and Humility

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... we document what we had for breakfast and baby’s first steps, a family birthday, an evening with friends, and so much more. Only the pictures we share tend to be carefully arranged to look their best just like my breakfast photo. It’s fun, quick, and easy to do. Yet according to “Psychology Today”, the cumulative effect of all our carefully curated photos may not be as fun as we compare them with the humdrum of our daily lives. After all, the ordinary, uncurated reality we live every day can never ...

4488. Sent

John 9:1-41

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... the Gentile Christians (Acts 15:22). The apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians, “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you” (Philippians 2:19). So too, Jesus was sent by God with a purpose—carefully, thoughtfully, with attention to detail, as a gift for the world--to do God’s work, to teach, to preach, to heal, to show the world who God was and is. The word “sent” appears twice in our text today: first in Jesus’ description of himself as sent ...

4489. The Big Move!

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... room shaking their heads, and the old women standing closely around Mary to give her strength, “Poor Mary.” At a minimum, a few folks would have dropped by the house to offer their best wishes and remind Jesus of the various laws he was going to have to be careful to remember if he was really going to go hang out with Romans and other non-Jewish people. As Jesus left, Dad would have been out on the sidewalk just to offer a few final words and to watch his son walk down the street, out of sight around ...

4490. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... of a nurse. As the war progressed, and as she was present at more battles, she was finally made the first female physician in the Army, assigned to the 52nd Ohio Infantry in the Army of the Cumberland. Walker put no limits on herself for providing medical care. She tended to the wounded in the hospitals, she would administer aid on the field of battle, and she would even cross over Confederate lines in order to treat a wounded soldier. On April 10, 1864, just after she assisted a Confederate doctor with an ...

4491. He's Not Dead Anymore

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... was finally released into the general prison population, Casey began telling other inmates about his new life as a follower of Jesus Christ. Other inmates targeted him for beatings because he had lost his power as a shot-caller. But he no longer cared. All he cared about was ministering to his fellow inmates and sharing the message of Jesus with them. After completing his prison term, Casey opened a small business, and to the amazement of everyone who knew him in his prior life, became a pastor. Before he ...

4492. What Fills Your Life Now?

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... The Barróns earned this title due to their work on a nonprofit that encourages kindness in daily life, and that supplies care packages for children with cancer. Their nonprofit also raises funds for cancer research. Keaton’s Kindness Foundation is named after Luke ... of their club, they soon had members in all 50 states, and the club dues helped to pay for toys and care packages for pediatric cancer patients. According to Luke and Holly, Keaton kept his focus on helping other hospitalized children, even as ...

4493. Shut the Back Door!

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , because he is attentive to them. He watches over them. He doesn’t forget them. He won’t take his eyes off of them. And …they …know it. Jesus allows us his people to truly “live” in unfettered, unobstructed ways, even while feeling safe and secure in his care. Now that’s a Shepherd to depend on. No one wants to stay trapped inside in fear, afraid to truly live in the world as part of community, taking part in every adventure they can dare to engage in. No one wants to stay in the house when ...

4494. Framed by Love

John 14:15-21

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... one another? If the definition of love is Jesus, then failure seems inevitable, and can we frame that with love? When we fall short, when we are too weary or pre-occupied to love others, can we confess and repent, make amends and forgive, and learn to care for one another again? Can we turn to God’s Spirit to help us to keep loving one another? And what about on a national and international scale? Instead of focusing only on our own needs, can we in love consider the needs of others? Can we demonstrate ...

4495. Herding Cats

Matthew 9:35-10:8-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’ll never build a kingdom that way, he instructed. Instead, proclaim my message, heal and raise the dead, cast out demons. Some will listen. Some won’t. Do not try to control the outcomes. Just do your thing and then walk away. God will take care of the rest. Jesus’ message then (his evangelistic method if you will) works the same today as it did those years ago. We live in a divisive culture. As always through the ages, people will think independently, will have their own ideas, their own religions ...

4496. Mind Your Manners

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... at a lunch counter in Durham with people of another color. White segregationists were right: to admit someone to sit with you at your table is to risk seeing that person as a fellow human being, full of the same hurt, the same aspiration, the same humanity as yours. Be careful where you eat, how you eat. Well, I can't remember when I have eaten at a dime store lunch counter and I suppose it’s been even longer since I have put my feet under the table with people who do eat at such places. I take most of ...

4497. You've Got To Be Taught

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... got to be taught to hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught from year to year. It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear. You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late -- Before you’re six or seven or eight -- To hate all the people your relatives hate. You’ve got to be carefully taught. Parents, we need to be intentional in teaching our children at least three things. First, honesty. Most of us know how we lie to others, but we don’t know how we ...

4498. Sometimes You Have to Stop

Philippians 3:13-14

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... final draft of Thomas Gray’s masterpiece of a poem, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Lovers of English literature marvel at how every word seems to be carefully chosen. The amazing thing is that Thomas Gray never considered that poem complete. In the museum display you can see the process through which he went, each successive draft carefully penned by hand. Seventy-five of them! And the author was still unsatisfied. Two lessons are there. One, there’s always room for improvement. If we are ...

4499. Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

William G. Carter

... tall fescue he could buy, he reseeded the entire yard. Guess what? The grass came up. It was beautiful. The weeds came back. They had to send him to a padded room for a short vacation. Where do the weeds come from? This is the recurring question in lawn care and life. If Jesus says, “the kingdom of heaven is like a gardener who throws around a lot of seed,” his very next episode is about the reality of weeds. There are weeds in every family: even if the kids are raised with safety and good nutrition and ...

4500. Hidden Treasure

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... find that the meaning is actually reversed. You (God’s valued disciple) are God’s treasure. You are the pearl of great price.Jesus is the seeker. Jesus will search for his sheep, pearl, treasure, coin earnestly without rest. He will hold the entire world in God’s care,minister to the entirety of the world’s people,gather everyone in that he can, in order to make sure he doesn’t miss any of his precious people. He will go to any lengths to net every fish, even rotten ones or dead ones, because he ...

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